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In her new paper, Consciousness-raising 2.0: Sex Blogging and the Creation of a Feminist Sex Commons, Elizabeth Wood of Sex in the Public Square argues for the value of women’s personal blogging about sex. Those 1970’s “consciousness-raising” groups, designed to bring women together to share stories, find common [...]
Via Voices of American Sexuality, a PSA from government-run 4parents.gov, with a whole raft of young people just begging their parents to teach them to wait until marriage to have sex:
Jenna Bush notwithstanding, of course.
The challenge with the democratization of media-making has been just that: you know, democratization, getting voices and stories from outside the social media saturated echo chamber (San Francisco, New York, hello) out into the Great World Beyond. Which might be why finding a show like The Midwest Teen Sex Show is still shocking:
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A study out of Melbourne University, polling the usual captive audience of young people — this time, those who’ve received sex education in Victoria — finds (unsurprisingly) that:
Many appeared to be crying out for sex education that went further than the standard biology and risk prevention.
“If they did get sexuality education it was mostly focused [...]
Not only is abstinence-only sex “education” (where’s the education, exactly?) without evidence in reducing STI’s and unwanted pregnancies, now its crooked money trail is starting to unravel, as well.
Out in this week’s Nation, The Abstinence Gluttons tracks the neoconservative anti-abortion, anti-comprehensive sex education agenda, and reveals it for the cashgrab that it is. [...]
We’ve tried, we’ve tried, and we’ve failed to keep any regular sexual tabs on digg. Simply put: a) a story on digg needn’t even touch upon sodomy to bring out some users’ inner homophobes-cum-AssholeTeenageBoys (no, that’s not a gay porn); b) when so much sex online is so bad, and then you throw [...]
Circulating today: Alexyss Tylor, host of this Atlanta cable access show, illuminates how “not all penises are created equal,” why women use vibrators as an expression of submission to the penis, what it’s like for men to “ejaculate all over your brain,” and other non-sex advice. Oh, do we need to be keeping an [...]
You know we can’t resist a good college paper’s de rigeur “sex issue,” especially one that claims to not be “a cliche sex issue” as “Baltimore’s top campus paper,” The Towerlight, does.
Taking sex culture to task is so the new how to have sex, and I can’t say that’s totally a bad thing, so [...]
Sexerati is a bleeding (Pan Am-esque) heart, you know. While visiting the offices of Better World Advertising yesterday in downtown San Francisco, we couldn’t help but be struck by how much hotter and smarter public health campaigns around safer sex are — and more effective — when introduced by the likes of the Healthy [...]
Of all the ways one could attempt to recapture one’s college days, keeping up on undergraduate student newspapers’ sex coverage is right up there (either that, or discussing post-coitally where Baudrillard meets Buffy, take your pick). If this is where the future of American sex is being played out extra-curricularly, we take it as [...]